Sharp County record., 1887-04-28
TAlMAGE'S SERMON.
An Easter Discourse on the over
throw Of the Monster"
The Significance of Easter Suaday--EVi-
dences of a Final Resurrection
Victory Over Death-Reunion
of Body anl Soul

! subject of his Easter sermon at tne Drooh-
! lyn Tabernacle "The Overthrow Of the
Monster" taking for his text
He will swallow up death in victory. Isaiah
! XIV, s.
About 1853 Easter mornings have wax.
ened the earth. In France for three cent.
uries the almanacs made the year begin
at Easter until Charles *. made the year
begin at January l. In the Tower OF Lon
don there is royal payroll OF Edward L.,
! on which there is an entry Of eighteen
pence for four hundred Colored and pjct-
'ured Easter eggs, with which the people
sported. In Russia slaves were fed and
aims were distributed on Easter.
! Ecclesiastical councils met at Pontus,
at Gaul, at Rome, at Achala, to decide the
particular day, and after controversy;
more animated than gracious, decided it
and now through all Christendom, in some
way, the first Sunday after the full moon
which happens upon or next after March
q is filled with Easter rejoicing
+ The Royal Court of the Sabbaths is
made up of ffty-two Fifty-one are
Princes in the royal household, but East
er is Queen. She wears a richer dladem
and sways more jeweled scepter, and in
| her smile nations are irradiated Unusu-
ally welcome this year, because OF the
| harsh winter and the late spring, she
| seems to step out of the snow-bank rath-
| er than the conservatory, come out OF the
North rather than the South, out OF tho
Arctic, rather than the tropics; dism0uut-
ing from an icy equinox, but welcome this
| queenly day, holding high up in her
right hand the wrenched-off bolt OF
| Christ's sepulcher, and holding high up
IN her left hand the key to all the ceme-
teries in Christendom.
1t is an exciting thing to see an army
routed and flying. They run each other
down. They scatter every thing valuable
| in the track. Unwheeled artillery, hoof
of horse on breast of wounded and dying
man. You have read of the French fall
| ing back from Sedan, or NapoleOn's track
| of 10000 corpses in the snow banks OF
| Russia, or of the retreat of our own arm
| les from Manassas, or Of the five Kings
tumbling over the rocks of BethOran with
| their armies, while the hail-storms OF
| heaven and the swords Of Joshua's host
| struck them with their fury.
| In my text is a worse discontinue. 1t
seems that black giant proposed to con-
! uuer the earth. He gathered for his host
| all the aches and pains and malarias and
cancers and distempers and epdemics OF
| the ages. He marched them down, drill
| ing them in the northeast wind and amid
| the slush of tempests. He threw up barrl-
! cades of grave-mounds. He pitched tent
| of charnel house. Some Of the troops
marched with slow tread commanded by
consumptions, some in double-quick, COM
manded by pneumonias. Some he took by
long besiegement Of evil habit, and some
| by one stroke of the battle. axe of casual
ty. With bony hand he pounded at the
/ door of hospitals and sick-rooms, and
won all the victories in all the great bat
! tlefields of all the five continents. For
ward, march, the conqueror Of conquerors,
| and all the generals and commanders In
chief, and all presidents and kings and
sultans and cars drop under the feet OF
his war charger.
But one Christmas night his antagonist
was born. As most of the plaques and
sicknesses and despotisms come out OF
the East, it was appropriate that the
new conqueror should come out of the
same quarter. Power is given
him to awaken all the fallen OF
all the centuries and Of all lands, and
marshal them against the black giant.
Fields have already been won, but the last
day of the worlds existence will see the
decisive battle. When Christ shall lead
forth his two brigades, the brigade OF the
risen dead, and the brigade OF the celestial
host, the black giant will fall back, AMI
the brigade from the riven sepulchres
will take him from benelth, and the
brigade of descending immortals Will take
him from above, and death shall be sWal-
lowed up in victory.
The old braggart that threatened the
conquest and demolition of the planet has
lost his throne, has lost his scepter, has
lost his palace, has lost his prestige, and
the one word written over all the gates OF
mausoleum and catacomb and Metropolis;
on cenotaph and sarcophagus, on the
lonely khan Of the Arctic explorer and on
the catafalque Of great cathedral; written
in capitals of azalea and Gala lily, written
in musical cadence, written in doxology
of great assemblage5; written on the
sculptured door of the family vault is
"yictory.n Coronal word, embannered
word apocalyptic word, chief word of the
triumphal arch under which conquerors
return.
Victory! Word shouted at Culloden and
Balaklava and Blenhem, at Megiddo and
Solferino, at Marathon, where the Athe-
mans drove back the Medes; at Poictiers,
where Charles Martel broke the ranks Of
the Saracens; at Salamis, where Themis-
tocles in the great sea-fght confounded
the Persians, and at the door OF the
Eastern cavern of chiseled rock, where
Christ came out through a recess and
throttled the King of Terrors, and put him
back in the niche from which the Celestial
Craqueror had just emerged. Aha when
the laws of the Eastern mausoleum took
down the black giant, death was swal-
lowed up in victory" 1 proclaim the
abolition Of DEATH
The old antagonist is driven back into
mythology with all the lore aboutStyglan
ferry and Charon with oar and boat. Mel
rose Abbey and Kenilworth Castle are no
more in ruins than is the sepulchre. we
shall have no more to do with death than
we have with the cloakroom at Cover
nor's or Presidents levee, We stop at
such cloak-room and leave in charge OF
servant our over ,oat, our overshoes, our
outward apparel that we may not be I'M
peded in the brilliant round Of the draw
ing-room.
Well, my friends when we go out OF
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